OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14458376
MAINTENANCE,AMPUTATED,FINGER,GUARD,LOCKOUT
Event description
Employee caught finger in curler machine
Investigation abstract
An employee had worked on machinery maintenance and repair for 2 years. His job of the feed bar was 0.0625 in. from the end of the slot. When the machine was tu rned off, the feed bar would make several strokes decelerating. The employee had made these adjustments hundreds of times. On the day of the accident, he reache d for a finished end a second or two too soon and the tip of his right middle fi nger was nipped off by the feed bar at the end of the slot. Although this feed b ar was not perceived as a hazard formerly, the employer acknowledged that the fe ed bar and slot could probably be guarded in a way that would not require remova l of the guard for production adjustments. included making adjustments to the curler machine, which performed the last of a series of operations in the production of 4-oz spice can ends. The machine was a Cameron 176 curler on the 4-oz Durkee line, and there was an identical machine on the 4-oz Grafco line. Between adjustments it was necessary to turn the machi ne on to allow a few ends to pass through. One of the ends would be measured to check the effect of the adjustment. The ends were moved through the machine by a reciprocating feed bar having an 8-in. stroke at 120 cycles per minute. The bar moved in a horizontal 1-in.-wide slot. At the end of each feed stroke, the end
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 519
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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